{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1692/section-XIV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1692/section-XIV.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/4/25",
  "legislation_title": "Trade with France Act 1692",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-with-france-act-1692",
  "path": "section/XIV",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIV",
  "heading": "XIV. Captains, &c. embezzling Goods taken as Prize.",
  "text": "Penalty.; If an Officer, Penalty £500. and Incapacity for 7 Years.\nAnd be it further enacted That if any Captaine or Officer or any other person by his co[m]mand or direction or any Seaman Soldier or other person serving in their Majesties Navy or in any Privateer shall take to him or themselves or imbezel any Money Plate Goods Lading or Tackle or other things upon or above the Gun Deck or any other part or place whatsoever in any Ship taken or seized on for Prize or retaken from the Enemy the party offending shall lose and forfeit the Shares Proportions and Rewards to him allowed by this Act And alsoe in case such person be an Officer hee shall forfeit the su[m]m of Five hundred pounds (whereof one moiety shall be to their Majesties and the other moiety to him who shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts att Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection Priveledge Wager of Law or more then one Imparlance shall be allowed) for every such offence and such Officer shall be uncapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties dureing the space of seven yeares It being the true intent of this Act that all Goods upon or above the Gun Deck and elsewhere shall in all places be preserved intire from Imbezelments and shall not be pillaged in any case whatsoever.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Thirteenth and, in King's Printer's Copy."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X2",
      "text": "This Proviso is annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/4/25/section/XIV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:12.992285+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}